Improvement in dress-facings



W. H. GIALLUP.v

Dress-Facings.

Patented April 29,1873.

@Hummm UNITED STATES WILLIAM H. GALLUP, on TROY, NEW YORK.

PATENT IMPROVEMENT IN DRESS-FACINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,326, dated April'29, 1873; application filed' January 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM H. GALLUP, of Troy, in the lcounty ofRensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedFabric for Facing, Stiffenin g, and Protecting Dress-Skirts, of whichthe following is a specification: f

My invention consists of a new article of trimming for facing,stifening, and protecting the bottoms of the skirtsV of ladies dresses,which is composed of a strip of starched, gummed, or otherwise stittenedmuslin of the character of Wigan, say four inches, more or less, wide,and of one or more plies or thicknesses with a narrow border, say aboutan inch wide, of the same or any equivalent material further stift'enedby fluting sewed on one edge, which I propose to manufacture in abouttwelve-yard pieces, and put up for market in the ordinary way of puttingup goods of this class to provide a better article for stiftening,facing, and protecting the skirt-bottoms than the ordinary facings used;also, more ornamental, being so applied to the dress-skirts that theiiutcd part projects below the edge of the dress to be exposed to viewand to support the dress above the ground.

.Figure l is a front elevation ot' a section of my improved trimming;also, a section of a dress-skirt faced with the trimming; and Fig. 2 isa sectional elevation of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondiug parts. I

A is the plain stripof stiffened fabric, which I prefer to make doubleby taking a piece twice as wide as I want the plain part of the iinishedarticle to be, and folding it over, as shown in Fig. 2. B is the stripor border of iuted stuff of the same kind or any equivaient thereof,which being originallyr made stift' and firm with sizing is greatlyincreased in stiffness by the iiuting, so'as to be capable of supportingthe dress-skirt and rendered very durable. This iiuted strip I sew ontothe piece A at 011e edge, as shown, placing it between the two partswhen the said piece A is composed of a doubled strip, and sewing themtogether, as shown. VThe edge of the iuted strip sewed onto the strip Ais lattened down by the pressure of the sewingmachine, so as to be sewedsmoothly at the same time it is sewed on. G represents the skirt of thedress to which this improved facing is sewed, so

A of stift'eued fabric, and the fluted strip B of like material attachedthereto, substantially as and for the purpose described.

WM. H. GALLUP.

Witnesses:

T. B. Mosman, ALEX. F. RoBERTs.

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